That means us building a variety of partnerships and working with the whole sport sector to really think about people who are under-represented in sport and physical activity.

We’ll be using ourActive Livesdata to measure our progress towards these targets, with our next release in March giving us the first chance to compare year-on-year figures.

People who we describe as ‘active’ do 150 minutes or more of moderate intensity activity per week.

Rising to the challenge

As well as working towards these new targets,our wider workto build an active nation is not slowing down.

And we’re committed to supporting the 27 million people who are already active by marking sure they have the right facilities, activities and mixture of opportunities.

Sport England Chair Nick Bitel said: “The government’s Sporting Future strategy set out a big vision to create a more active nation for all. Sport England and the whole sport sector is rising to the challenge and this is reflected in the ambitious targets we're announcing today.

“We're working towards something that has never been achieved before. We're changing long-term, deep-rooted behaviour around sport and physical activity across the population.

“There's no blueprint to do this and achieving success will require the sector to think and operate very differently, engage with people that it has never really engaged with before, and put those people, and their needs, at the heart of everything.

“By investing in new ways of working, working with a broad range of partners, embracing innovation and constantly learning from what we do, we aim to prove that change in activity levels across the whole population is possible – and that everyone can benefit from sport and physical activity.”